03:10, 2007, 61 × 48 cm
670-1410, 1993, 28 × 21,6 cm
a boy called Mess (#33 of 38), 1997, 29 × 21 cm
a boy called Truck (#21 of 38), 1997, 27 × 21 cm
a boy named Deth Doug (#19 of 38), 1997, 29 × 21 cm
a girl called Dirty Little Jacket (#3 of 38), 1997, 29 × 21 cm
a girl named Come-on, 1998, 70 × 50 cm
A.C., 1989, 28 × 21,5 cm
Brown haired nurse, 2008, 152 × 256 cm
Bugs, 2006, 193 × 166 cm
Car crash, 1993, 28 × 21,6 cm
Christ, 1990, 29,7 × 21 cm
connected kids (color), 1994, 29,7 × 21 cm
From the series Suicide Girl 1 of 37, 1996, 27 × 21 cm
From the series Suicide Girl 11 of 37, 1996, 27 × 21 cm
From the series Suicide Girl 22 of 37, 1996, 27 × 21 cm
From the series Suicide Girl 25 of 37 (1 / ), 1996, 27 × 21 cm
From the series Suicide Girl 30 of 37, 1996, 27 × 21 cm
Garden, 2008, 200,5 × 198,5 cm
girl named 6 -teen (#9 of 38), 1997, 29 × 21 cm
It's a we hate ya world..., 1997, 115 × 88 cm
Ladyman, 1989, 27,9 × 21,5 cm
Lenard, 1989, 27,9 × 21,5 cm
Louise Mandich, 1989, 27,9 × 21,5 cm
Mothereturn, 1998, 29,7 × 21 cm
S.B., 1989, 28 × 21,6 cm
Some futures are forbidden Kit..., 1996, 50,7 × 40,5 cm
Untitled, 1991, 43 × 35,5 cm
Untitled, 1998, 100 × 70 cm
Wall (#37 of 38), 1997, 29 × 21 cm
Warren, 1989, 28 × 21,5 cm
Wheel chairs and arrows, 1993, 29,7 × 21 cm
youth forse (#16 of 38), 1997, 27 × 21 cm
Douglas Kolk, born in 1963 in Newark, USA, died in 2014
Douglas Kolk’s work revolves around questions of identity, initially in small format drawings and then later in large format works and collages. Figures appear to be restlessly searching for a sense of self. In his drawings, influenced by Pop Art and the current torrent of media images, he emphatically succeeds in expressing human vulnerability, human depth and extreme psychological states. In doing so, in his small and medium formats he works to create a striking, yet restrained visual language through a focused reduction of the forms, lines and colours in which – similar to Raymond Pettibon - sentences, like fragments of thoughts, are integrated so they can be perpetuated by the viewer, enabling them to steer the represented situation in another direction. In the new large format collages and sculptures Kolk’s articulation has become more expressive.
Douglas Kolk’s work revolves around questions of identity, initially in small format drawings and then later in large format works and collages. Figures appear to be restlessly searching for a sense of self. In his drawings, influenced by Pop Art and the current torrent of media images, he emphatically succeeds in expressing human vulnerability, human depth and extreme psychological states. In doing so, in his small and medium formats he works to create a striking, yet restrained visual language through a focused reduction of the forms, lines and colours in which – similar to Raymond Pettibon - sentences, like fragments of thoughts, are integrated so they can be perpetuated by the viewer, enabling them to steer the represented situation in another direction. In the new large format collages and sculptures Kolk’s articulation has become more expressive.
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